Edmonton's Muslim Community Urges Canada to Open Doors to More Refugees
"The idea here is to collect as many names and take those names to our government and let them know that as Canadians, we've always been humanitarian and want to see more done from our government," said organizer Aumer Assaf.
The Islamic Family and Social Services along with the Edmonton Mennonite Centre have already welcomed 24 refugees from Syria, said spokesman Ayub Umergy.
About 140 others should soon be arriving in Edmonton and Calgary, he said.
Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011. In the past four years, more than 200,000 people have died in Syria -overwhelmingly civilians– and around 4 million Syrian people are now refugees in other countries. Another 7.6 million are displaced inside Syria.
Source: cbc.ca
